Is HGH OK?
Is Morphizm on the juice? Sure, but it depends on what you mean by juice. If you're talking about HGH, I haven't got that far, even though the science still isn't fully in yet. As I wrote for AlterNet today, it can be good or bad for you, depending on who you are. So why is everyone losing their fucking mind over it, to the point of making it a controlled substance? Read on:
No One Really Knows If HGH Is Bad for YouIn an earlier report on human growth hormone (HGH), known simply as growth hormone in scientific circles, I took athletes like Roger Clemens to task for lying about taking it to increase their field performance. It's an obsolete tactic to employ, especially during a period in which superstars like Sylvester Stallone not only take it to bulk up for films like his latest Rambo roid rage-fest, but also advise anyone within range that they should hop on its juice as well. Sure, Clemens was on the line for perjury, dragged as he was in front of Congress on the matter, but, as hoops stars say all the time, the ball don't lie. And Clemens's stats in his declining years in baseball don't tell the story of an aging great whose body can't hold up against the strain: They tell the tale of someone who, against entropy and all common sense, managed to stave off the aging process long enough to pick up a couple World Series wins, Cy Young awards and hundreds of millions.
But that would only be part of the tale. The rest of it isn't as exciting as the Mitchell Report, or watching baseball titans like Clemens and Mark McGwire humbly schlep to Washington for some long-deserved scrutiny on their garish records and paydays. That's because the rest of the tale is about the science, rather than the hype, of HGH.
And like the ball before it, the science don't lie... MORE @ ALTERNET
1 Comments:
Growth hormone [GH] is needed for healing as well as for
growing. GH enabled the movie star and the baseball player to
continue working when otherwise they would have had to retire.
The GH enabled them to heal the insults of aging so that they
could work longer. The choice is: would you rather live 100
years and be forced to retire because of your physical condition at
60 or would you rather live 99 years but be able to continue
working until you are 80? I suspect that most of us would choose
the second alternative. If we re-named it Healing Hormone [HH]
would Congress be less prejudiced against it? GH or HH is used
as medicine to heal persistent/unhealing wounds. Eleven year
olds have survived wounds that would kill a person of any other
age. GH is also the injury survival hormone. You have more of
it at age 11 than at any other age.
Congress may be influenced by health insurance companies who
don't want to pay for GH/HH. That is another reason to go for a
single payer government health insurance like the Canadians have.
I would prefer a secretagogue if possible because use of an actual
hormone may over time reduce the size of the gland that makes
the hormone. Taking an artificial hormone may make you need
to continue taking it. That is OK if you can afford it. GH must
be injected, another reason to prefer a secretagogue.
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